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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 28, Issue 9, Pages 2884-2895Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00949-07
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- NIDA NIH HHS [R01 DA030339] Funding Source: Medline
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Polycomb group (PcG) transcription regulatory proteins maintain cell identity by sustained repression of numerous genes. The differentiation of embryonic stem (ES) cells induces a genome-wide shift in PcG target gene expression. We investigated the effects of differentiation and protein interactions on CBX family PcG protein localization and dynamics by using fluorescence imaging. In mouse ES cells, different CBX proteins exhibited distinct distributions and mobilities. Most CBX proteins were enriched in foci known as Polycomb bodies. Focus formation did not affect CBX protein mobilities, and the foci dispersed during ES cell differentiation. The mobilities of CBX proteins increased upon the induction of differentiation and decreased as differentiation progressed. The deletion of the chromobox, which mediates interactions with RING1B, prevented the immobilization of CBX proteins. In contrast, the deletion of the chromodomain, which can bind trimethylated lysine 27 of histone H3, had little effect on CBX protein dynamics. The distributions and mobilities of most CBX proteins corresponded to those of CBX-RING1B complexes detected by using bimoecular fluorescence complementation analysis. Epigenetic reprogramming during ES cell differentiation is therefore associated with global changes in the sulmuclear distributions and dynamics of CBX protein complexes.
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